Re: Eu website
- Posted by useless Aug 27, 2009
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Is there any support for a better search system for the archives on the RDS site, like i wrote 2(?) years ago?
No, not yet, but the source for the forum is open and I highly encourage contributions! The search engine needs to index a MySQL database and provide free text searches. It also has to not create any index above about 20mb, because that's about all the space we have left on the web host.
In the mean time, in what way do you find the google search ineffective?
What google search? http://www.rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm plainly (tho in small print) it's powered by Euphoria.
It's to allow more people to contribute. It's so you aren't throttled by creole interpreter, where you can use the same template as the rest of the site on your page, or not. Where if you feel the need to provide a flash video on how to install Eu on dosbox, on win95 on a smartphone, or a tutorial on using a gui interface (your app or Judith's IDE), or anything else prohibited on this site.
I answered being "throttled" by creole in a post just a second ago. As for a video, I would encourage uploading it to YouTube, it would get a wide audience there and a link can be provided to it along with textual tutorial on the wiki and forum for that matter (because they both use Creole, you can easily copy/paste). No sense in everyone publishing a movie in their own flash format, YouTube does a great job of standardizing that and making it easy.
As for using the same template... The whole purpose of a template, a wiki, the manual, the forum is to provide consistency. No one will like one doc page being formatted differently than another doc page. One doc page having links at the top, the other on the left side, then yet another with links on the right side. It's very important that all pages on the openeuphoria.org website work/look the same. This is where creole really helps keep consistency and usability of the openeuphoria.org family of web apps.
Jeremy
I understand this, for doc pages, but not individual's pages of their pet projects.
useless
